... STARTLING NARRATIVE OF CRIME. Some months ago, says a late Francisco paper, a large section ot the interior country, embracing portions of the counties of Calaveras, El Dorado, and Placer, was the theatre of a series of horrible and mysterious murders attributed to Mexican banditti. In most cases the victim was miner, known to-have been working claim, and situated in a locality where, in the ...

... THE PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRA- TION. As it is highly probable that the next general elec- tion will take place upon the forthcoming register (which, it must be remembered, will be in force over the greater part of 1852, every elector should see that he is in a position to exercise that import- ant trust which has been committed to him, and the more so when every man considers that he is acting ...

... [TO THE EDITOR] ,-MJSES. SIR,-I shall feel myself very much obliged if v™ the kindness to allow me, through your vali *ui • Wl11 have inquire of the Rev. Chancellor Williams whaf • e Jonrnal> to of the following words: Panthaw'nl » 6 meaning yblawd, Nant Wyddon, and Fvnnnn (^wrach There are farm-houses, under the above -^yllgoed. of Glyncorwg, Ystradtyfodwg, Llantriss ames, In the parishes ...

... No sooner had the 91st regiment been removed from Everton Harracks-some being sent to Manchester, others to Bury and Preston, and the head quarters to Chester—than the 28th regi- ment occupied their places, and, it would seem, look up their rnanile of hostility to ihe police. On two successive evenings tins week, collisions have taken place between the two forces, in more than O-ne initance, ...

... THAT wife over whom your love broods is fading. Not beauty fading; that, now that your heart is wrapped up in her being, would be nothing. She sees with quick eye your dawning apprehension, and she tries hard to make that step of her's elastic. Your trials and your loves to- gether have centered her affections. They are not now as when you were a lone man, wide-spread and superficial. They ...

... DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF AT WESTMINSTER. On Monday morning the workmen engaged in ^ft Messrs Kay's manufactory, observed a party %VA F tokens of insecurity, and before they had tl effect th- ir escape, a stack of chimneys fell meudous crash, burying the men beneath. Weston was crushed to death. A body of men 5 to work, and after almost superhuman EXERTION3' PIT#1' James Comb, who was ...

... POETS' CORNER. ON THE DEATH OF MY FIRST-BORN. AND art thou gone, my little babe, hast thou Departed in thy beauty, like the Sun Receding far from Greenland's snowy brow, When his Imef bnlhant summer course is run, Leaving nought there but solitude and gloom, As it those regions were one icy tomb! But thou art gone to blessedness and joy, Unequalled—indefinable—sublime— JSJor would I bring ...

... RHWG Y BARDD A MORWYN YN NGHYLCH GABIAD. Forwynig bert! bydd Latai im, D'wed wrth dy feistres fod ei bardd, A'i galon blydd yn curo'n chwim Am dani yn mhen isa'r ardd. 'Does genyf fodd mewn byd yn awr, I wneud eich cais, (er carwn i) Tra mae yn nghwmni'm meistres FAWR, 'R hon sydd yn chwerw atoch chwi. Cerdd i !—saif !—ond !—dos d'wed yn hy, Fod Miss,—Miss !—Rhywbeth wrth y drws, Am gael ei ...

... Her Majesty arrived in Edinburgh from Balmoral on Tues. day evening, at eight o'clock. When the royal train was within about thirteen miles of Edinburgh, one of the pipes of the boiler of the engine burst which detained the train about an hour. The accident was not such as to create the slightest alarm to her Majesty. A fresh engine was sent from Edinburgh to bring the train in Her Majesty was ...

... We regret to learn that the Bishop of Bath and Wells is in a precarious state of health. It is said that in consequence of ill health, the Lord Bishopof Gloucester and Bristol does not intend to hold a visitation this year, but that the Chancellor of the diocese will act for his Lordship. ...

... Notwithstanding that the supply of English wheat on offer in to-day's market was extremely small, the demand for all kinds ruled heavy in the extreme, at barely Monday's reduc- tion in the quotations, and at which a clearance of tho was not effected. Upwards of 11,000 quarters of foreign wK have come fresh to hand this week, chiefly from the WPU ward, oo little business was transacted in that ...

... OXFORD CincuiT.—Judges The Hon Mr. Justice Talfouri and the Hon. Mr. Justice Williams.—Berkshire: Monday, February 28, at Reading; Oxfordshire: Thursday, March 3, at Oxford Worcestershire: Tuesday, March 8, at Worcester; City of Worcester: The same day, at the Guildh-.lt oi the city; Staffordshire: Saturday, March 12, at the Castle of Stafford; Shropshire. Monday, March 21, at Shrewsbury;, ...